25 comments:

Nice tutorial LeeAnn! I love the thicker binding as a design element. Indian quilts also never have separate bindings. For some quilts I do like skinny ones but fatter ones make more sense when I compare them to the size of the quilts. Those prints look so yummy in the detailed picture!

Nice tutorial LeeAnn! I love the thicker binding as a design element. Indian quilts also never have separate bindings. For some quilts I do like skinny ones but fatter ones make more sense when I compare them to the size of the quilts. Those prints look so yummy in the detailed picture!

Great tutorial! I am not really surprised that the Gees Bend quilters end up their quilts that way, it is a simple and logical solution. My first quilts were simply finished like this, then I learned how to make a border with a separate binding!

My Mom use to do her quilts this way and then when I first started I started doing it that way as never heard of doing bindings! I moved and it seems all my friends do the method of cutting bindings and sewing them on so I got the impression it was wrong to do the fold over of the back. Thank you for this blog as I like to do it that way! Nancy

Utility quilts were often finished this way. When the quilt is to keep the family warm, quick techniques such as this can speed the process.The only limitation is that the binding has only one layer. On a heavily, often washed quilt, the binding may wear more quickly.Judy Young

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I've been making quilts since 2005, and am a big fan of Gwen Marston, Anna Williams, Denyse Schmidt, the Gee's Bend gals and old string quilts--the quirkier, the better. I love new fabrics, but my favorite source is the men's shirt rack at the local thrift shop.